Risabha Deva

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Jain Mitra Mandal

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PEEPING INTO THE FUTURE 53 the order mentioned ! The last king, who will be called Kalki,* will snatch away the food from the hand of the last Saint, and will be destroyed by devas for his extreme impiety. The Saint and the Nun will perform sallekhanå death, along with the householder and the pious lay lady. Fire will disappear, instantly and dharma will cease to exist in the next moment.
Thereafter the sixth käla, likewise of 21,005 years, will supervene. It will be the worst of all. People will keep on deteriorating, and the suffering and misery will be intolerable. Cooking will be unknown; for there will be no fire ! People will take to raw meat, which they will bite off from living animals and even men. Law and order will be replaced by lawlessness and disordor. At the end of the sixth kāla, a great calamity will befall the world for forty-nine days there will
hogy Kalki also figures in Hinduism, but there he is an allegorical figure and in glaring contrast with Jainism, He is the destroyer of dharma and a wicked persecutor of the pious in the latter, but the establisher of the true dharma and the destroyer of its foes in the former ! This antagonism is, however, only apparent and caused by the employment of an artistic form of allegory which while professing outwardly to differ from the Jaina view in reality, implies no difference at all. For the Hindu Kalki is the destroyer of the soul's internal enemies-passions and appetites and the like-wh) will establish the Kingdom of God in the human Heart, while the Jaina Kalki will be an historical enemy of the Faith and of the followers of the Faith who will be a man of flesh and blood in the outer worla !